======= Mounting VPS image offline ======= first use fdisk to see partitions' offsets # fdisk -l /dev/xvda Disk /dev/sda: 149.1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000c25fa Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 19531775 19529728 9.3G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 19531776 58593279 39061504 18.6G 83 Linux /dev/sda3 58595326 312580095 253984770 121.1G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 58595328 312580095 253984768 121.1G 83 Linux or you can use it for an image, here is another example with usb flash.iso file # fdisk -l vps01.iso Disk finexo-flash.iso: 7.2 GiB, 7747397632 bytes, 15131636 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: EEADAEAD-CA33-4934-81D5-06161B87C41C Device Start End Sectors Size Type vps01.iso1 2048 12994559 12992512 6.2G Linux filesystem vps01.iso2 12998656 15131602 2132947 1G EFI System The offset of the first partition is in both cases 2048 *sectors* not bytes. One sector is 512 Bytes so the real offset in bytes is 2048*512 (2^11*2^9 = 2^20 = 1048576) mount -o loop,offset=$[2048*512] vps01.iso /mnt ...well done :-)